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Favorite Mixtapes of February 2015
by TMT Staff on 02-27-2015
With a daunting cascade of releases spewing out each day from the likes of DatPiff, LiveMixtapes, Bandcamp, and SoundCloud, it can be difficult to keep up with the overbearing yet increasingly vital mixtape game. Show More Summary

Box sets are bigger than ever right now according to my grandpa, Poopsie. 4AD will release 1,500 numbered copies of a Red House Painters LP box set worldwide on Record Store Day, April 18, and in the US on April 21. The box set willShow More Summary

Composer/songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist/dark lord of the night Shub Roy has worked with Dirty Beaches (producing Drifters/Love Is the Devil ), psych weirdos Yamantaka, and a host of other intriguing, shadowy, dark/weird music figures. Show More Summary

By Grant 'Gumshoe' Purdum on Feb 27 2015
I’m not sure what it is about Snow Stained with the Blood of Traitors that has stayed in the back of my mind since it arrived on my doorstep, but its blackened lofi metal appeal is unmistakable. Show More Summary

Though you may miss Thailand, it’s still nice to have you back, Yagi. Must’ve had your sampler with you there, huh? Find any good digging spots? Prolly.
Special treat, this SLOWCOLOR is. Lithe guitars, pianos, and horns, dismembered and reassembled vocals, and various other jazzy samples mesh with crisp drums. Show More Summary

Young Bodies Heal Quickly
Dir. Andrew T. Betzer
[Factory 25; 2015]
by Matt Biancardi
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I obsessively watch nature documentaries: partly because I find them calming, partly because I wanted to be a zoologist when I was ten, and partly because I get tired of staring at my wall. Show More Summary

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
A Year with 13 Moons
[Mexican Summer; 2015]
by Birkut
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When Jefre Cantu-Ledesma took up his residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, he began making field recordings on his way to the studio. The recordings...Show More Summary

Dawn Richard
Blackheart
[Our Dawn; 2015]
by Pat Beane
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Despite the suite-laced sweep of Blackheart, dense and chimeric, I find myself drawn to the misdirect simplicity of its beginning — Dawn Richard’s solo voice, the emotional and musical bedrock of this project. Show More Summary

My uncle Ralph use to always say, “Listen to this new song by Big Sigh & Bad Dream Vacuum. It’s called “Circus,” and it’s truly top notch!” And I’d always say, “Will do, uncle Ralph. Heck, I could use some new music in my life,” not believing him that such a song existed, but still playing along. Show More Summary

They can do that, I guess, and it’s apparent that the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has put an astounding amount of thought into something that probably won’t matter a lick to the industry’s ultimate, collective...Show More Summary

DANCE MIX WATCH! DANCE MIX WATCH! DANCE MIX WATCH!
This is DANCE MIX WATCH. I’m posting the best mixes coming in right now.
DMW #2 comes from New York DJ/graphic designer JOHNBENNET, who, like like-minded producer Sophie, seems to be using music as advertising. Show More Summary

S/O to my Paris homies JUNKADELIC for hitting me with the new Booba, “Tony Sosa” video. Now, as I’m familiar that half our readership for TMT is outside the U.S., giving us a wider breadth of coverage in musical genres generally unexplored; you’re welcome. Show More Summary

Queen and Country
Dir. John Boorman
[BBC Worldwide North America; 2014]
by Robert Ham
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I rather admire the turn that John Boorman’s career has taken as he settles into his eighth decade on the planet. If his previous feature The...Show More Summary

By Strauss on Feb 26 2015
Henry Plotnick sits at a freakishly talented thirteen years old, but his music can somehow feel even younger. That’s not a jab at whether or not he sounds “experienced,” or “practiced.” Actually, he doesn’t at all, which is precisely what makes his work so distinguished and engaging. Show More Summary

Late drives into a pit of darkness. No physical destination, just forward. Mentality melting away. Knowing no body knows. Connect to the higher-power within self. Become the all-mighty master of personal fate. Feel the enveloping colorless atmosphere. Show More Summary

Listen, I’m a well-known fan of ghosts of every stripe, so if something comes up in the ole TMT news queue with even a hint of ghostliness about it, I’m going to snap it up like the greedy toddler that, in many ways, I kind of am. So...Show More Summary

“Ohm” – the first single off POLYGLOVE’s newest Redial EP out now on cassette via Illumined Paths – had a video made by SecondFrams Films in all it’s meditative and possessive hypnotic journey, and it’s nothing short of mind controlling. Show More Summary

Q: Is this a new easyFun EP? Is this the same people who made the other easyFun EP? Is it just one person? Is it A. G. Cook? Is it someone named Finn Keane? Is that Hannah Diamond on vocals? Is it ‘Sarah’? Is it Finn Keane? Is the speeding...Show More Summary

A repetitive and “ominous bird of yore” has gotten all of the celebrity treatment over the past century or so, and it’s finally time for a new avian featherhead to supplant that snide bastard on the deliberately tree-lined red carpet. Show More Summary